Dr Adriana Bungau

Biography

Adriana joined the University of Huddersfield in 2008 as a Research Fellow working on target design and optimisation for two accelerator facilities, ISIS and ESS. She is currently working on Daedalus experiment and Isodar neutrino source in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Between 2005 and 2008 Adriana worked as a research associate at the University of Manchester in the field of Particle Accelerators, specifically on development of large software and hardware systems for various linear collider designs.

Research & Scholarship

As a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield Adriana worked on target design and optimisation for the ISIS Muon Facility in order to improve the surface muon production by optimising the target geometry and material and by finding the optimum energy of the proton driver. She has also been involved in the neutron target optimisation for the European Spallation Source and background and activation studies of the HEBT at the same facility.

Currently she is working on the design of a novel, high intensity source of electron neutrinos(Isodar) and on Daedalus project in collaboration with MIT.

Previous work at Manchester includes ollimator wakefields in the Beam Delivery System for the International Linear Collider. She also worked on the MERLIN code development by adding several classes for higher order modes wakefields which are now part of the MERLIN core. Adriana took part in an experiment at SLAC at End Station A, where they measured the wakefield kick for various types of collimators.

Research Degree Supervision

I am currently helping Prof Cywinski's PhD student Noemi Radcliffe with the Geant4 simulation code and target modelling for the BNCT experiment and I also provide help with the C++ programing language and the physics of charged particles interactions with matter.

Teaching and Professional Activities

Adriana works as a Physics Tutor at the University of Huddersfield. Between 2001 and 2003 she worked as a Maths Tutor and a Laboratory Demonstrator at the University of Manchester.

Last updated Thursday 6 March 2014

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